stonemasons builders architects compete with each other. this is home minister churches are creating. contests to. d.w. . profitable in even in the pandemic fox made money in 2022 spied co with 19 other german carmaker announces ambitious plans to go electric also coming up you've heard of offshore power on solar well now people in thailand tough put the 2 ideas together . i don't welcome to do business i want to get johns and today is a day off reckoning because the full extent of a difficult year is laid bare as

a number of leading a german companies released their annual reports helping to give us a sense of the winners and losers of the pandemic among the latter frankfurt airport few industries have fared worse than travel and germany's largest transport hopper took a battering as congo and passenger numbers plummeted notching up a nearly 700000000 euro loss for 2020. now it's been a bumpy year for online retailer salon dot as lock down restrictions forced shoppers to reach for their laptops the company announced a 125 percent leap in profits this morning no question so lando is a winner for europe's largest car manufacturer well it's less clear on the 100 folks wagon falls into the losers category post-tax profits in 2020 were down more than a 3rd from 2019 on the other hand though they're still making money and bosses say sales are recovering the exact numbers for results confirm

a profit of 8800000000 euros last year it's a positive outcome for the carmaker despite cope with 19 taking its toll through much of the year fox buying says the rapid recovery in china and strong sales of luxury models helped it to stay in profit. well let's get a little bit more analysis now from martin friedel he is automotive expert at the university of bamberg and he joins us now good to have you with us so folks. so folks like they themselves say that china is helping them through the pandemic how important is that market for the carmaker. so folks like goes back a long while john of their engagement goes back to the early 1980 s. with a number of very important challenges that they passed and clearly the chinese market is the largest automotive market in the world it is the most important of its soul

the doubly so the rebound of the chinese market the 2nd holiday of last year reduced sue good will for you w 2 you know for sports and reporting for sports but that sounds that fox and also other com makers of course there are largely dependent on china or n. any other key markets that they can also rely on so the asia pacific region is the largest market so we don't you know if you look at the broad spectrum of markets where we don't use these operating we see that a 2nd is already in the european union with germany actually still being a very very marketable they don't be. so the domestic market is really crucial for that we don't you with salo north america we don't you have quite a. hard time after the diesel scandal to regain trust in also

you know position itself more strongly with a. electrified. beagle's exact moment as you mention because a lot of industries are facing 2 challenges one is the pandemic the other of course climate change and fox has just announced that they want to to launch 6 a european giga factories are they ready to take on tesla perhaps here in europe. i think these are really exciting times of course there because if we look at the last 5 to 10 years the strategies always been portfolio in market share in segments and now we see that they are restarting the growth engine if you will by developing you know logical competencies around battery software charging stations and the energy of course the electronics. platform which underpins their not small

strategy so yes is the luxury segment they are gearing up sort of as of all they're gearing up to take on test. in its own. true 2nd my right to it with a focus on the luxury segment which also helped being profitable i mean fox hacking group consists of 12 brands including commercial vehicles and all the way up to the current brands is this kind of portfolio still sustainable today. i would agree with you there are a big question marks around what story are so we have the car brands we have the commercial vehicles and we do have trucks as and me and sunny are and so on and they there is a question to be honest what is the future particularly or trucks insert the we don't you group. overall its throat looks or your being the luxury segment but also in lower the lower end of the market so for instance actually good quite

a resilient group and state is hugely important and you know it's not just minutes after or soon if i will use that helps to brutal stuff all right martin trace of that automotive expert from the university of bam back thank you some watch for sharing your insights with us. and from cost to another industry can see it here that's been particularly hard hit by the pandemic travel and in particular aviation but more on that let's bring in colorado's now in frankfurt because the cloud obviously frankfurt airport frank would abhor as we said earlier is among today's losers they reported a huge annual loss in 2020 but its c.e.o. speaks of a light at the end of the tunnel please explain. well monica it's a very very long tunnel that fraport is in i have to say after having reported the

1st net loss in 20 years today c.e.o. says that likely this year's net result will also be one in negative territory so maybe maybe next year the airport operator manages to return to net profit again the light at the end of the tunnel is of course that people will want to travel again that airlines are ready to ramp up their capacity as we've seen it with my your car the spanish island where only very recently the german travel restrictions were lifted immediately the bookings went up and immediately several airlines increased the number of flights daily to and from new york. of course the rollout of the vaccination programs and greater availability of testing capacities is a positive for the airports it allows to hope that traffic can rebound.

has its work has issued and long term growth prospect is remain intact well a little bit of optimism doesn't do any harm for sure glommed was in there thank you so much. well the travel sector certainly believes that a health passes could pave the way back into business british airways aims to launch its own digital vaccine passport by may and virgin atlantic is betting on an app to make air travel safe and profitable again. it's a far cry from the golden age of a our travel but virgin atlantic says it coronavirus crew test center is critical to get the world flying again here at heathrow airport pilots and cabin crew used by a law to track their test results the airlines want passion just to follow this spring and the summer to get going health passes will be absolutely essential like

most in the industry virgin has been battered it's no operating at less than 20 percent of demick capacity but there are some signs of a recovery in the us market the makers of the digital i gamed the app your t c it will help to maintain trust in testing and speed up travel in the pandemic age paper to focus on going to do that they don't allow airlines and other organizations within the ecosystem to allow things like online check in or self-service ports because you have to present those physical don't mention your eyes but it's part of an industry wide push to introduce travel passes meaning anyone without a vaccine passport or a recent negative test may find themselves locked out of the sky. and i just some of the other global business stories making news. facebook has reached a deal with rupert murdoch's news corp to license news in australia the agreement

comes 3 weeks after the australian government passed laws that require digital giants to help cover the cost of journalism displayed on their platforms and used deal follows a similar agreement with google last month. chinese tech stocks have fallen off the regulators find a dozen companies over what they called monopole istic practices tense and shared $60000000000.00 in market value while alibaba signaled may have to sell off some assets under the crackdown. and the e.u. has launched a legal action against the u.k. over an alleged breach of the northern ireland protocol it's a major part of the brics a deal which aims to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. talent state owned power utility wants to promote renewable energy with floating solar plants currently renewables account for about 15 percent of the kingdom's electricity makes by 2036 this share is expected to more than double. floating solar parks

each one the size of 10 soccer fields and that's just the beginning today another segment is being towed to its final location for sweet a show took it's become routine even if the conditions today are not ideal and today is the last time when the n.b.a. have to meet at a compound at the pass and get there to understand what just even the guy. in the beginning speed boats were used for towing but they were not easy to maneuver. we used as the tool to its guy being small and he had. to control. the movement when we face a problem and just move and turn back to. each individual segment is 130 meters long and over 30 meters wide the most critical moment is docking because i like the gigantic rafts themselves their connection points are

rather chinese. for this many small hole to get at. the visit once out of the stable at small. base. when all the solar rafts are in place and anchored they'll cover 720000 square metres of the reservoir and provide $45.00 megawatts of energy anough 1st small town thanks to the water's natural cooling effect the modules are up to 15 percent more efficient than on land your can bend is an electrical engineer who would pfizer's thailand's electricity suppliers on renewables benda explains that although floating solar fields already exist in some countries when it comes to size thailand is setting completely new standards. that's. just 10 times bigger than the one they just launched in the u.s.

. you can see the dimensions. there's nothing like it in europe either. the floating solar park is scheduled to go online at the end of june the ties are already planning 16 more. and that's the business update here in the w. for me in the team thanks for watching. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. n you know years years we can hear you and how the last years german starts now we'll bring you an angle a man called and you've never had to have been surprised still sells the broadest

possible who is medical really what moves and want. to talk to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike now as the world's most powerful woman shaking her they can join us the metals last the. covert 19 does not discriminate between the rich and the poor but the wider effects of the pandemic have hit some much harder than others marginalized communities are bearing the biggest burden take europe's largest ethnic minority the roma for example. a section of society that's already felt let down by governments across europe now feels even less protected by society finding it harder to access state

help. the pandemic has widened the gulf between the haves and the have nots and few groups have borne witness to that like the roma. imagine trying to live through a pandemic without the basics you need to keep say. no running water no electricity well that's the reality for many of your millions of roma the continent's biggest ethnic minority is also perhaps its most marginalized and the coronavirus pandemic has only further exposed vulnerable they are crossing the road to a life no one wants to live a social worker takes us inside this room a settlement it's in the middle of a forest people here are left to fend for themselves they are poor. and trying to live day for the. life and they are angry that various politicians have been here they say but nothing has changed for me my you damn in them make it

back it's only good luck to you they only come when the elections are coming up they give us some flour sugar or oil and they think that we will live from this gift all year 9 minute. altec split up but be sure that this settlement started out as a makeshift camp for refugees fleeing the war in kosovo who then 2 decades ago that's when sampson arrived back then a teenager now a father of 7 children. who all comes us into his house made of scrap material his youngest child is only a couple of months old probably the most of those the post-war than embryonic lot because i don't want them to leave the same life through them or not i've been struggling for so many years i mean i'm most sorry for my wife she has to do laundry by hand i would buy a washing machine but i have no where to turn it on. the plan you're very shyly.

with the ongoing pandemic the children had to drop out of school without internet no axes and then there is the key legal hurdle to improving their lives some of them on the one of the problems we have encountered a lot of problems because i did not have any documentation when i came here we did not have the time when we left kosovo. he stories that of so many here one of their biggest obstacles to proper housing and health care documents without i.d.'s people who live here have become legally invisible in serbia there are hundreds of informal roma settlements but this camp is one of the worst people here are living in inhumane conditions with no electricity no running water they feel ignored and overlooked by the government and the local government in belgrade did not want to answer all questions about the living conditions here mark of us or you have h.

is not surprised he's been advocating for the rights of the romans to be up for years living without access to the very basics is a serious health risk at any time but especially during the current pandemic he said there is a connection or 2 in a mental and physical that are there their health is extremely affected both physically and mentally and this may at some point ask an auditor or they are sporadic housing programs for people living in informal settlements because there is no systematic approach to all informal settlements systems to police to the problem that she may use he believes this is due to discrimination of a community already marginalized in so many parts of the world. they are already various action plans and national police in sioux bia to improve the living conditions of. together they are one of drew quiet to join the european union one day but such plans and policies require a stronger political will to implement them so settlements like this one cease to

exist. well let's discuss the problems facing roma during the pandemic with vivian brush oil from the european roma rights center thanks a lot for joining us and just explain to us the specific challenges facing roma you're in the pandemic thank you so. the european or american center. received reports also remember many people and facing gap lack of access to adequate housing conditions or lack of access to water and x 360 or had to carry on saw her in the mouth situation then and now and announce refuse to enter and major roma neighborhood also the cyclone e.t.s. facing serious backlash on our soil shows security support and.

in many cases where inform our set things they are employed in core mollies soul even in the financial at the ation 2nd use and respected use they are not included so nice these these issues are adding to the already that and maginot situation off from many people and when it comes to the pandemic and that marginalize ation you talk about whether we see sort of the the tangible effects for example our government is failing to take into account right now when it comes to public health protection measures for example. i would say that we haven't heard yet of our serious outbreaks and in many communities but we see that for example where many communities are treated differently when it comes to

a number of cases. $1000.00 infection cases for example. in will be area and tire remaining in a very rare karen ignagni the matter how many people were actually infected by the virus anti-air neighborhoods where there were karen teams weak military checkpoints military forty's for forces taking care not entering or or leaving those remaining neighborhoods and also for example the agriculture or plains they create these neighborhoods in the disinfectant which you can i believe him aging in the right rear cress. need that hold so these these this is just a man of the examples that that draw many people faced during the cold in 19 and

also another part of these. met many or many people have because of the exclusion and poverty. there's. soul they are more one marital money comes to the writers because it's as just studies and throughout europe shows. on every down 15 years many people are leaving the last down down. down down in the meijer this a site a lot of the problems you talked about they relate to social exclusion ultimately what can be done to improve the situation forever. i think one of the only to overcome the system of segregation and oppression by racists system is that there are many people being included in decision making progress

dresses and police and also meeting share dad these be really packages and financial and every measures do not exclude the many communities and that that mean the means that. these actions to ensure that the many people equally enjoy their rights. and brush oil from the european roma rights center thank you for joining us thank you now a growing number of countries are suspending their own lots of the astra zeneca covered 19 vaccine have a safety concerns among them now are the netherlands book area island the democratic republic of congo they stopped giving the shot following reports an increased risk of blood clots but astra zeneca insists there is no evidence to support that the world health organization is also urging countries to continue

using the vaccine. you know and i was put the past the program where we put one of your questions to ask science correspondent is derek where. $1000.00 is transmitted aristotle's so why the health care all that protective clothing. personal protective equipment or more precisely shortages of it has been an ongoing issue for for many countries since the start of this pandemic p p e for health care workers includes a wide range of gear from 6 to phase shields to gloves to gal means and the point and all of those products is to provide a barrier between what you want to keep out which in this case is a respiratory pathogen transmitted primarily the aerosols through the air and the person wearing the p.p. either however c.d.c.

recommendations for people taking care of recovering couvade 1000 patients at home don't include ones to wear head to foot protective clothing but only to wear effective masks and at times to put on single use gloves health care professionals in hospital wards however are regularly exposed to much higher levels of the virus than a caregiver at home sars could be to can't enter the body directly through the skin which provides a very effective protective barrier but it can settle on it and and remain capable of infecting someone for a while thanks birds know i believe that for the average person the chances of infecting yourself by transferring the virus from a surface where it settled to your face via your hands that that chance is actually quite low but that danger is multiplied for someone who spends their days in

a ward followed coughing coded 1000 patients so donning items like downs and other protective clothing is an important way to shield yourself if you work with those people on a daily basis. so from us until next time take out.

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